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Paul Goldberger on the Fight to Save Chicago's Prentice Hospital

The old Prentice Women’s Hospital by Bertrand Goldberg. (Photo: Umbugbene/Wikipedia)

Why bother, then? It’s a key building in the history of structural engineering, and its unusual form, a poured-concrete cantilevered shell, has few if any equals in modern engineering. Almost nothing else looks like this building, and in a world of carbon-copy architecture, its loopy, futuristic curves are unique: a concrete rocket ship amid Chicago’s glass boxes. A little weird, yes, but the more you look at it, the more you like it.
— vanityfair.com